{"id":41268,"date":"2021-01-05T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T04:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=41268"},"modified":"2021-01-05T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T04:14:13","slug":"lenovo-announces-collaboration-with-aws-creates-solution-partner-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2021\/01\/05\/lenovo-announces-collaboration-with-aws-creates-solution-partner-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo announces collaboration with AWS; creates Solution Partner Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lenovo announced a collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT)-based solutions, accelerating business transformation globally by making IoT adoption practical and scalable. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes at a pivotal point with businesses and workplaces changing the way they operate during the global pandemic. Lenovo also announced a new solution partner program to bring more than 100 partners across real estate, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, education, and transportation verticals into Lenovo\u2019s IoT ecosystem in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since introducing the Commercial IoT (CIoT) group at the end of 2019, Lenovo has launched 11 IoT solutions in the areas of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techtoday.lenovo.com\/us\/en\/solutions\/thinkiot\">Smart Buildings and Smart Retail<\/a>&nbsp;to help customers simplify their Business Transformation. Each solution is validated and tested by Lenovo and can be deployed and managed as a turnkey solution helping customers move quickly on critical problems such as preparing offices for bringing employees back to work. Lenovo is looking for more than 100 solution partners around the world with solutions in real estate, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, education, and transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With customers around the world in North America, Europe, and Asia, delivery capabilities in over 100 countries, and a team headquartered in the US with team members in Canada, Mexico, India, China, and Singapore, Lenovo\u2019s Commercial IoT Group has achieved global reach in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lenovo has launched its ThinkIoT Solution Management platform developed with AWS. The ThinkIoT Solution Management platform enables Lenovo to monitor the health of IoT solutions for customers so that Lenovo can repair them if they break, giving customers a practical approach to leveraging IoT technology. In addition to launching the ThinkIoT Solution Management platform, the collaboration with AWS includes access to the AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners for the aforementioned industries and driving customer demand for IoT solutions through joint sales and marketing initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVerticals such as manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation are in the midst of key business transformations,\u201d said Dirk Didascalou, Vice President of IoT, Amazon Web Services, Inc. \u201cWe are delighted to collaborate with Lenovo to accelerate customers in these verticals by providing the validated AWS IoT solutions and cloud infrastructure to make it possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Lenovo\u2019s CIoT business has contributed to the company\u2019s service-led transformation strategy, the group has strong ambitions for 2021. \u201cI\u2019m proud of what our team has accomplished in this first year, while facing unprecedented challenges, but we are just getting started,\u201d said John Gordon, President, Commercial IoT Group, Lenovo. \u201cIoT holds the potential to transform our customers\u2019 businesses, and we are committed to making it as easy as possible for them with the help of our growing ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To support this growth, Lenovo is deploying the ThinkIoT Partner Program to help IoT solution partners grow their businesses. By joining the ThinkIoT Partner Program, IoT solution providers can increase their customer access, customer trust, and global deployment reach. Learn more about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techtoday.lenovo.com\/us\/en\/solutions\/thinkiot\">becoming a ThinkIoT partner<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRelogix has a world class, proven real estate management IoT solution,\u201d said Jeff Bennett, COO at Relogix. \u201cBy partnering with Lenovo, now we have the global sales and deployment reach to support customers who have global offices. A recent customer had offices in Toronto, Canada, San Francisco and Austin in the US, London and Brighton in the UK, and Bangalore, India. By working with Lenovo we dramatically simplified the deployment and management of this global IoT solution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lenovo delivers these solutions with a global IoT solution delivery network that exceeds 20,000 technicians. Lenovo\u2019s delivery network continues to expand with a combination of its own employees and with field service partners such as Unisys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are excited about the partnership with Lenovo,\u201d said Jose Luis Villalvazo, VP of Global Field Service and IoT at Unisys. \u201cOur field service experts complement Lenovo\u2019s validated and tested IoT solutions to ensure customers can deploy and manage their IoT capabilities around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes at a pivotal point with businesses and workplaces changing the way they operate during the global pandemic. 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